Stephen King's "Carrie" Getting a Remake

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa ("Big Love," "Glee"), the playwright and comic book writer who was brought on to save the Broadway play "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," has been hired by MGM and Screen Gems to write the script for the "Carrie" remake.

Based on the Stephen King thriller, the story is about a telekinetic teenager who gets pushed too far at the prom and wreaks havoc on her fellow high school students. King's best-selling book was turned into the 1976 film that starred Sissy Spacek, John Travolta, Amy Irving and Piper Laurie as the repressive mother.

Aguirre-Sacase will write a version that is more faithful to the King book than the earlier movie. He has previously worked with King on "The Stand" graphic novel.

This is just another Hollywood f*ckup that doesn't realize it was about a telekenetic teenager getting pissed off because her boyfriend didn't give two sh*ts about her prom, so she goes off the rag and menstruates over all over her classmates ... literally.